<h2>Conservancy's Commitment to Copyleft License Compliance</h2>

<p>Conservancy is dedicated to encouraging all users of software to comply

  with Free Software licenses. Toward this goal, in its compliance efforts,

  Conservancy helps distributors of Free Software in a friendly spirit of

  cooperation and participation.  In this spirit, Conservancy has co-published,

  follow in their compliance efforts</a>.

  Also in collaboration with the FSF, Conservancy also sponsors

  the <a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/"><cite>Copyleft and the GNU

  General Public License:A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide</cite></a>,

  which <a href="/news/2014/nov/07/copyleft-org/">formally

  launched in fall 2014</a>.  The Guide includes tutorial materials about

  <p>This document is also published on <a href="https://fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles">FSF's site</a>.</p>

  <p>We revise these principles from time to time based on community feedback.  Please <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/principles-discuss">subscribe to our principles-discuss list</a> to follow the discussion and share your thoughts with us.</p>

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<p>Copyright &copy; 2015, Free Software Foundation, Inc., Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., Bradley M. Kuhn, Allison Randal, Karen M. Sandler.

<br/>Licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.

<a href="https://fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles">[2]</a>) are preserved in modified and/or redistributed versions.</p>

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<h3>Isn't the combined works and/or derivative works question a legal grey area?</h3>

<p>We don't think so, but this case will let the court to decide that question.

Either way, it's beneficial to our entire community to find out what the

information</a>.)</p>

<p>Help us pay for this expensive lawsuit and to generally defend software

  freedom and the GPL.  Help us show the world that copyleft matters.  We are excited 

  to announce that we already reached an anonymous match for this campaign, where every dollar donated 

  was matched up to $50,000. However, that $100,000 is just an initial step

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  <dt id="funding">Who's funding this lawsuit?</dt>

  <dd>Conservancy has engaged in a grant agreement with Christoph Hellwig for

  the purposes of pursuing this specific legal action in Germany.

  Conservancy is funding this legal action specifically as part of

  Conservancy's program activity in

  Project for Linux Developers</a>.</dd>

  <dt id="combined-and-derivative-works">Is this the Great Test Case of Combined / Derivative Works?</dt>

  <dd>This case is specifically regarding a combined work that VMware

  allegedly created by combining their own code (“vmkernel”) with

  <dd>

  <p id="diagram">

    Conservancy prepared this diagram to show the technical situation as we

    understand it.  The diagram compares the technical architecture of a full,

    running Linux kernel with a full, running VMware kernel:

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    </p>

    <p>If you want to download the diagram, it's available

    (German)</a>.</p>

  </dd>

  <dt>Can you explain further in words (rather than a picture) about the central

  component in ESXi that the lawsuit alleges violates the GPL?</dt>

<dd>

  discusses above.</p>

<dt id="similarity-analysis">How do you know Christoph's code is present in

  VMware's work?</dt>

<dd>Conservancy

comparison analysis between Christoph's code and VMware's code</a>. This

particular analysis uses a two step process: (a) use Linux's public Git logs

to find Christoph's contributions from Christoph, and (b) use a widely

accepted and heavily academically cited tool, CCFinderX, to show that VMware

copied Christoph's code into their product.</dd>

<p>Godot is an advanced, feature packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game

engine. It provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on

making your game without reinventing the wheel. Godot is is completely Free

and Open Source under the MIT License.</p>

<p>The GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers is comprised of

copyright holders in the kernel, Linux, who have contributed to Linux

under its license, the GPLv2. These copyright holders have formally asked

Conservancy to engage in compliance efforts for their copyrights in the

Linux kernel.</p>

<p>Software Freedom Conservancy is an essential organization to free and

open source software. We are the home of over

<a href="/members/current/">30 projects</a> like 

<a href="http://git-scm.org">Git</a>,

<a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://samba.org">Samba</a>,

Developers</a>, <a href="http://pypy.org">PyPy</a> and

<a href="http://sugarlabs.org/">Sugar Labs</a> just to name a few. Conservancy is a "fiscal sponsor plus",

providing everything that our projects need in a nonprofit. We help our

projects defend their trademarks, manage their assets, handle donations,

improve their community management, manage risk and assist them with all

legal needs they may have. While we do receive a portion of the revenue

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